CSIS, Derek Lee and Scientology caught in bed together.
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Canadian Member of Parliament Derek Lee:
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EVIDENCE
Sub-Committee
on
NATIONAL SECURITY
of the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs
Chair: Derek Lee
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The Chairman: Your chairman would like to address a
question slightly related to an itemMr. Rideout raised. It
has to do with foreign intelligence, which CSIS will gather
from time to time at the request of a couple of the
specified ministers in the statute.
In the SIRC annual report of 1994-95 in a subheading under
``Foreign Intelligence'', page 41 for reference, the second
paragraph, there are two sentences I'll ask you about. SIRC
says:
We noted a number of cases where CSIS had received
information concerning possible danger to Canadians. In
these cases, officers considered the seriousness of the
threat to the individual, and if necessary, took steps to
have the individuals warned.
Most of us around the table realize the difficulty of CSIS
doing the warning or conveying of information to third
parties. Can you give an indication of how CSIS in these
instances or instances like these would go about having
individuals warned? In this case I think they're talking
about industrial espionage or spying in relation to arms
production.
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Mr. Derek Lee: Okay. At this time, CSIS devotes a part of
its resources to collecting and analysing open-source data
for intelligence purposes.
Ms Gauthier: Yes, but only when it's necessary. I mean,
they don't do that just... They do that in connection with
investigation. They cannot collect open sources just for
the sake of collecting open sources on any issues.
Mr. Derek Lee: Well, CSIS, as I understand it, has access
to a ton of open-source -
Ms Gauthier: Yes, sure, and it's good.
Mr. Derek Lee: - data and media, and you're saying that
CSIS wouldn't bother using any of those resources if it
weren't targeting a particular threat.
Ms Gauthier: If it's not in connection with a particular
threat, they cannot collect open source and put it in a
file. They can maybe prepare a document of information,
general, for the public, but not to collect information and
put it in a file, even though it's coming from open
sources.
Mr. Derek Lee: Okay. Then let us assume for the sake of
discussion that there has been targeting authority given,
there's been a target approval given.
Ms Gauthier: Okay, sure.
Mr. Derek Lee: In that circumstance, acquisition of a bulk
of data analysed from a private sector source is in theory
a feasible operation. It would cost money, but -